Description:
This project compiles a database of various interactive sound installations described in the academic literature in the past 50 years. It’s intended for sound and multimedia artists, designers, and researchers looking for design precedent, inspiration, or an overview of trends in the field. A corpus of several hundreds interactive sound installations was reviewed to derive a taxonomy describing them across three perspectives, subdivided across more than a hundred categories: Artistic Intention, Interaction, and System Design. The proposed framework might help to identify similarities and differences in design and implementation of interactive sound installations, along with design trends.
We developed a webpage with two visualization tools to navigate the database: 1) a dynamic sunburst chart to navigate across categories and subcategories of the proposed framework, and generate lists of installations that share similar characteristics; and 2) a network graph to visualize the relationships between installations, and to identify clusters of installations that share similar characteristics.
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URL of the application: https://idmil.github.io/ISI-Database/
Source code: https://github.com/IDMIL/ISI-Database
IDMIL Participants:
External Participants:
Catherine Guastavino
Research Areas:
Publications:
- Valérian Fraisse, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Catherine Guastavino (2021-04-11). Comprehensive Framework for Describing Interactive Sound Installations: Highlighting Trends through a Systematic Review. In Multimodal Technol. Interact.. Basel, Switzerland.
- Valérian Fraisse, Catherine Guastavino, Marcelo M. Wanderley (2021-06-14). A Visualization Tool to Explore Interactive Sound Installations. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021). Shanghai, China.